Poverty can literally make people sick. As money and food run out at the end of the month, hospitalization for hypoglycemia increases for low-income people, as Dr. Hilary Seligman and her colleagues found in this study reported on in The Atlantic.

Please contact us for information about how Fresh Advantage helps hospitals use their community benefit programs to address food insecurity and its serious health consequences. These programs, which must be strengthened in response to provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, offer a proven means of decreasing food insecurity

FA Director Marydale DeBor, a nationally recognized community benefit expert, is collaborating with leading anti-hunger organizations and physicians across the nation, including Dr. Seligman, in the fight against malnutrition-related disease.

Marydale Debor

Marydale Debor is the founder of Fresh Advantage LLC which she created after 25 years experience in health care administration and philanthropy, when she recognized the urgent need to revolutionize traditional institutional food service. Her goal is to place nutritious, wholesome, and tasty food at the center of medical care and disease prevention, as well as workplace wellness and health promotion.

Want to learn more about the type of work Fresh Advantage does? Read this article to get a peek into a plan that was put together for addressing food insecurity at an urban Community Mental Health Center.

Even before taking office, the Vice President elect is taking action to curtail the programs that help people, mostly low income and people of color. South Dakota governor rejects Medicaid expansionModern Healthcare21 Nov 2016—Virgil Dickson

South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard chose to abandon plans toseek Medicaid expansion after meeting with Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Daugaard, a Republican who had been supportive of expanding Medicaid eligibility in his state, last week said he would not recommend expansion to the state’s Legislature this year after hearing the incoming administration’s plans for repealing or reforming the ACA.Brian Blase, senior research fellow at the conservative Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia, believes Daugaard was told that consistent with campaign promises, Congress will repeal the federal match for the expansion population.The Affordable Care Act provides 100% financing for Medicaid expansion. The rate would fall to 90% by 2020 and beyond. But the GOP now controls both houses of Congress, and while President-elect Donald Trump has stepped back from a full repeal of the ACA, Republican congressional leaders continue to talk about major changes to the ACA. ...

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